globaleconomicanalysis.blogspot.com / By Mike “Mish” Shedlock / Saturday, January 26, 2013 6:33 PM
I received an interesting email the other day on debating Paul Krugman. I did a search on the topic and found a post with that exact name: How to debate Paul Krugman
Paul Krugman is the high priest of Keynesianism and modern interventionism, of economic improvement through inflation and budget deficits. As such he is bête noir among us libertarians and Austrian School economists. What makes him so annoying is his unquestioning, reflexive and almost childlike enthusiasm for state intervention, even in the face of its obvious failure, and his apparent unwillingness to probe any deeper into the real causes of our present economic problems or to show any willingness to investigate the effectiveness or ineffectiveness of his particular medicine. His Keynesian convictions are presented as articles of faith that no intelligent person can seriously question. A Krugmanesque argument is always built on a number of assumptions that are beyond doubt: ….
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The above article goes on and on. Moreover, it appears to be 100% accurate. Unfortunately, it’s not the correct way to debate Paul Krugman at all.
Economist Hans Hermann-Hoppe explains the Right Way To Debate Paul Krugman in the following video.
